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Investigating Obsolescence
Languages die for political, economic and cultural reasons, and can disappear remarkably quickly. Between ten and fifty per cent of all languages currently spoken can be considered …
Language, Gender, and Sex in Comparative Perspective
Most studies of gender differences in language use have been undertaken from exclusively either a sociocultural or a biological perspective. By contrast, this innovative volume …
Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia
Indonesia's policy since independence has been to foster the national language. In some regions, local languages are still political rallying points, but their significance has …
Grammatical Categories and Cognition
Grammatical Categories and Cognition uses original, empirical data to examine the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular …
Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking
First published in 1974, this collection of classic case studies in the ethnography of speaking had a formative influence on the field. No other volume has so successfully provided …
Language Socialization Across Cultures
Children’s aquisition of language and their acquisition of culture are processes that have usually been studied separately. In exploring cross-culturally the connections between …
Literacy, Emotion and Authority
Literacy continues to be a central issue in anthropology, but methods of perceiving and examining it have changed in recent years. In this study Niko Besnier analyses the …
Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse
Rethinking Context
The last decade has seen a fundamental rethinking of the concept of context. Rather than functioning solely as a constraint on linguistic performance, context is now also analysed …